Section — Konings, Theologia Moralis
§ III. Various Privileges
- I. With secular persons. 1° They can dispense in all occult irregularities from delict, as a Bishop can;7 2° they can dispense and commute vows and oaths, as a Bishop;1 3° they can dispense with spouses in the impediment of demanding the debt on account of incest committed with a blood-relative of the other spouse, yet with special permission of the Superior, at least of his own monastery.2 - Besides, Religious can dispense in the vow of chastity with spouses in order to the use of Matrimony, whether the vow was emitted before or after Matrimony was entered.3 - Nor is the opinion affirming that Mendicant regulars and those communicating with them can dispense with betrothed persons improbable to St. Alphonsus, yet in a case of necessity, so that notwithstanding the same vow they may enter Matrimony.4
II. Regulars can celebrate Mass one hour before dawn, that is, three hours before sunrise, and from a just cause two after midnight, but only in their own churches, in which secular priests also can do this from the same privilege. After midday, from a privilege granted by Eugene IV, they can celebrate three hours after midday has elapsed.5
III. To the Nuns of St. Dominic, and therefore also to the other regulars by force of communication, in the case of illness, lethal in the judgment of a physician, it is permitted to emit profession before the year of Novitiate has been completed, provided nevertheless that they have the required age. St. Pius V, Const. Summi sacerdotii. Yet those convalescing, according to the opinion of many, are held to complete the year of Novitiate and emit a new profession.6
IV. "All regular Orders communicate in the privileges of other Orders, whether Mendicant or not." Thus St. Alphonsus.7 (E) p. 477.
Notes to n. 1203 - note sequence 1. (2) Elem. n. 873. (3) L. V. Decr. T. VII. c. 9. § ult. Trid. Sess. 5. c. 2. Ref. Bouix, de Reg. T. II. p. 140. (4) Craisson, Man. n. 641. (5) Elem. n. 709. 710. (6) Craisson, Man. n. 598. (7) H. A. Tr. XX. 104. Notes to n. 1203 - note sequence 2. (1) L. IV. 257. H. A. Tr. XX. 108. (2) H. A. Tr. XX. 108. (3) Ib. 109. (4) Ib. (5) Ib. 122, which seems to be preferred to n. 342. L. VI. (6) Craisson, Man. n. 2649. (7) L. V. 60. Appendix annotation (E), to n. 1203. IV. p. 466. col. 2. Under the name of Mendicants are comprehended those to whom by rule or constitutions approved by the Apostolic See revenues and possessions in common are forbidden, although they may have these by dispensation of the Pontiff, just as today in Trent, sess. 25 de Regula, cap. 3, dispensation is given to all Mendicants except the Friars Minor of the Observance and Capuchins. Therefore to the Mendicant Orders belong the four more ancient Orders of St. Dominic, of the Friars Minor, of the Hermits of St. Augustine, and of the Carmelites, of whom mention is made in cap. unic. § sane, de Relig. domibus in 6; and besides these the Orders of the Servants of Mary, of the Minims of St. Francis of Paola, of St. Jerome, as St. Pius V declared in Const. 35 Romanus Pontifex, and 48 Apostolicae Sedis; and the Society of Jesus, from the Bull Dum indefessa (Acta, T. I. p. 727).